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<h1 id="setting-up-kaggle-to-use-with-google-colab">Setting up Kaggle to use with Google Colab</h1>
<p><em>In order to be able to access Kaggle Datasets, you will need to have an account on Kaggle (which is Free)</em></p>
<h2 id="grabbing-our-tokens">Grabbing Our Tokens</h2>
<h3 id="go-to-kaggle">Go to Kaggle</h3>
<p><img src="/assets/posts/kaggle-colab/ss1.png" alt=""Homepage"" /></p>
<h3 id="click-on-your-user-profile-and-click-on-my-account">Click on your User Profile and Click on My Account</h3>
<p><img src="/assets/posts/kaggle-colab/ss2.png" alt=""Account"" /></p>
<h3 id="scroll-down-until-you-see-create-new-api-token">Scroll Down until you see Create New API Token</h3>
<p><img src="/assets/posts/kaggle-colab/ss3.png" alt="" /></p>
<h3 id="this-will-download-your-token-as-a-json-file">This will download your token as a JSON file</h3>
<p><img src="/assets/posts/kaggle-colab/ss4.png" alt="" /></p>
<p>Copy the File to the root folder of your Google Drive</p>
<h2 id="setting-up-colab">Setting up Colab</h2>
<h3 id="mounting-google-drive">Mounting Google Drive</h3>
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<pre><span></span><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">os</span>
<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">google.colab</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">drive</span>
<span class="n">drive</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mount</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'/content/drive'</span><span class="p">)</span>
</code></pre>
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<p>After this click on the URL in the output section, login and then paste the Auth Code</p>
<h3 id="configuring-kaggle">Configuring Kaggle</h3>
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<pre><span></span><code><span class="n">os</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">environ</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'KAGGLE_CONFIG_DIR'</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"/content/drive/My Drive/"</span>
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<p>Voila! You can now download Kaggle datasets</p>
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